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The Author in Pilgrim Dress
PILGRIMAGE to
MECCA
The first Englishwoman to Perform the Hajj
By:
Lady
Evelyn (Zeinab) Cobbold
LONDON: First Edition 1934
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Publisher/Year: LONDON, John Murray, First Edition 1934. Binding: Original Cloth Hardcover, 20x14.5 cm. Pages: 260 Illustrations: 19 photo illustrations, 1 map.
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Lady Evelyn Cobbold (1900-1900)
The first Englishwoman to perform the hajj, Lady Evelyn Cobbold, described in 1934 the feelings pilgrims experience during the wuquf at 'Arafat. "It would require a master pen to describe the scene, poignant in its intensity, of that great concourse of humanity of which I was one small unit, completely lost to their surroundings in a fervor of religious enthusiasm. Many of the pilgrims had tears streaming down their cheeks; others raised their faces to the starlit sky that had witnessed this drama so often in the past centuries. The shining eyes, the passionate appeals, the pitiful hands outstretched in prayer moved me in a way that nothing had ever done before, and I felt caught up in a strong wave of spiritual exaltation. I was one with the rest of the pilgrims in a sublime act of complete surrender to the Supreme Will which is Islam."
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ORIGINAL 1934 FIRST EDITION
Extremely Scarce & Hard to
Find
FASCINATING ACCOUNT
of PILGRIM to MRCCA
With Many
Photograph Illustrations
from about
80
Years Ago
From Preface ...
WHEN Lady Evelyn Cobbold asked me if I would write a foreword to the account of her pilgrimage to Mecca I felt both honoured and eager to comply. It is a very gratifying and pleasant duty to sponsor such an interesting and memorable record into the intelligent reading world.
As pilgrims, all of us, in what Bunyan calls "the wilderness of this world" this intimate and vivid description of the Hadj cannot fail to interest everyone. To Moslems it will be both interesting and instructive as recording the impression which the carrying out of the sacred duty of Hadj has produced on the first Moslem Englishwoman to perform it. To all internationally-minded, thinking people, this book will be welcome as the portrayal at first hand and from so agreeable a pen, of the Hadj, its significance, its rites and ceremonies, and their meaning and history, to say nothing of the journey and the customs and way of life in Arabia.H.E. Sheikh Hafiz Wahba,
Sa'udi Arabian Minister in London
I AM often asked when and why I became a Moslem. I can only reply that I do not know the precise moment when the truth of Islam dawned on me. It seems that I have always been a Moslem. This is not so strange when one remembers that Islam is the natural religion that a child left to itself would develop. Indeed, as a Western critic once described it, "Islam is the religion of common sense."
The word "Islam" means surrender to God. It also means peace. A Moslem is one who is "in harmony with the Decrees of the Author of This World," one who has made his peace with God and His creatures.
Islam is based on two fundamental truths, on the Oneness of God and on the Brotherhood of Man, and is entirely free of any encumbrances of theological dogma. Above everything else, it is a positive faith. ....
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H.R.H. Emir Faisal, Viceroy of the Hedjaz
Contents ...
Forward
Chapter
Jeddah
Medina I
Medina II
Mecca I
Mecca II
Index
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H.M. King Ibn Sa'ud with three of his Sons and his Minister in London
Illustrations ...
The Author in Pilgrim Dress
General Map
Beit el Baghdadi (Mr. Philby's House)
Market Place, Jeddah
Mecca Gate, Jeddah
H.R.H. Emir Faisal, Viceroy of the Hedjaz
Bab Es-Salam (Door of Peace), the Prophet's Mosque, Medina
Medina, showing Wall
Kibla of Osman, The Prophet's Mosque, Medina
Jebel en-Nur on way to Mecca
Pillars marking Limit of Sacred Territory
The Kaaba
Mecca from the Hills
H.M. King Ibn Sa'ud with three of his Sons and his Minister in London
Corner of the Great Mosque, Mecca, showing the Congregation standing in Prayer
Gate of Aly in the Great Mosque, Mecca
Mosque of El Khreif at Müna
View from Mosque of Koba outside Medina
Arafaat with Jebel Rahma (the Hill of Mercy)
The "Ikhwan" at Arafaat in silent prayer on their Camels
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The Kaaba
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Bab Es-Salam
(Door of Peace), the Prophet's Mosque, Medina
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Medina, showing
Wall
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Beit el Baghdadi
(Mr. Philby's House)
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Mecca from the
Hills
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Corner of the
Great Mosque, Mecca, showing the Congregation standing in Prayer
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Mecca Gate, Jeddah
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Mosque of El
Khreif at Müna
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Arafaat with Jebel Rahma (the Hill of Mercy)
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The "Ikhwan" at Arafaat in silent prayer on their
Camels
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Market Place, Jeddah
Condition ...
Small white chalk stain on back cover, introduction pages not bound in, otherwise book in very good condition. Extremely rare work.
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